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Here is a selection of Ilford news. Any major stories, national news concerning Ilford or anything that particularly catches the eye you can count on us to tell you!

This is not meant to be comprehensive weekly news, for that see Wanstead and Woodford Guardian or similar.

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31 Jul 2002

  • Boy dies on activity course organised by the council
    A 16-year old died at a waterfall during an activity course organised by Redbridge Council. The boy jumped into the pool. After he was pulled out hw was pronounced dead at the scene.

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28 Jul 2002

  • Cowardly attacker with sore head
    In Barkingside, two women were faced with a hooded man just after midnight. He said 'give me your bags' and waved a knife in front of one of them. Her friend whacked him over the head with her bag and which sent him promptly packing, fleeing the scene.
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14 Jul 2002

  • Gary Jacobs, celebrity solicitor, dies.
    Gary Jacobs, the celebrity solicitor, has died of a heart attack at the age of 56. He had a column in The Mirror called 'Justice with Jacobs', did TV work and worked on Talk Radio with his own legal hour and took part in some shows with the football agent Eric 'monster monster' Hall and Caesar the Geezer. He owned Gary Jacobs Mahta & Co in Newbury Park.
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26 Jun 2002

  • Murdered woman found at Aldborough Hatch, Hainault.
    A murdered woman was found at Aldborough Hatch, Hainault. This is national news, so you may as well go here to see it.
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16 Jun 2002

  • A letter to Ilford is worth £500!!
    A letter dated in 1911 sent to Mrs Noble in Colenso Road, Seven Kings is expected to reach £500 at auction. It came from Tuvalu in the West Pacific, formally the Ellice Islands. It is so valuable because there was a stamp shortage at the time and was marked with ink marks instead and that there is very litle mail from the Ellice Islands in existance. My financial advice to you, dear readers, is to save all thouce council tax, gas and electric bills, for you never know, in 91 years you could be a millionnaire.
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